Happy World Breastfeeding Week!

Posted by Carolyn
on
August 04, 2016

The night my daughter was born, our
first nursing session happened inside the Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit. Meredith had required some brief monitoring post-delivery, and
I remember sitting in that wooden rocker, amused at the way her angry
little fists punched the air in protest over being made to wait. But,
the moment she was in my arms, she took to nursing like she was born
to do it, and we went on to have a successful nursing relationship.

But the age old practice of
breastfeeding has seen its fair share of change over the years—at
least when it comes to how its perceived. My 93-year-old grandmother
wasn't even given the option to nurse her babies after they were
born; formula was the new, modern method of choice. Years later, my
mother chose to breastfeed when it still wasn't very much in vogue.
Today, popular opinion has swung back in favor of nursing and its
benefits for mother and baby, and in the 1990s, World Breastfeeding Week was established to promote the practice.

Here at Bison Booties, our Normalize Breastfeeding Project was designed to join in the support of nursing
moms (get FREE breastfeeding cards to share here). So much of what we
do is centered around mothers and babies, and we love helping moms
feel empowered and confident in their parenting decisions.